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Advertising Rules

The forum is not a vehicle for free advertising of services or goods. No advertising of:

personal websites

email addresses

links to websites with which you are personally involved or gain commission from

advertising text/slogans

avatars advertising your own villas

avatars advertising other websites

are allowed on the forum.

These will be removed if posted and persistent or blatant offenders may be locked out of further use of the forum.

Recommendations

If you wish to recommend a service which you have found useful to others on the forum, that's fine but please note that the Administrators and Moderators reserve the right to edit these at their discretion.

I know we may get some flack for 'censoring' blatant advertising, but we do have to be sensible about what we allow to be posted. Imagine ITV television advertising BBC programs - it doesn't make any business sense!

Our business offers excellent value tickets and car hire (as well as many other services) - Like with any other product, there will always be someone somewhere that sells a similar product for a similar or lower price! We do aim to provide great value services with excellent customer service. It would be daft for us to promote the advertising of competitors blatantly on our own website!

These forums cost a surprising amount of money to run (the amount of visitors and traffic means using a dedicated server with a huge spec) as well as a lot of our own time, and we make minimum profit on our services - It is important that we protect this income to cover our costs, which is important to everyone - visitors to Florida and villa owners alike.

Non-home owners on OV sites

Please limit your profile signature to either your user name or your 'real' name (whichever you wish). No slogans, quotations, etc are allowed and should be removed if you already have them.

Home owners on OV sites

You may put a link to your villa advert in your signature, together with your name as above.

To insert a link to your OV advert, go to your advert page, highlight the top address bar, right click and copy it. Go to your Profile and right click and copy it into your signature.

Alternatively...

You can use BB Code to show a picture of your villa in your forum signature, which when clicked will open your villa advert in a new browser window. Details of how to do this can be found here.

Requesting a Rental

Please ensure that you do this via the enquiry system and not via the forum. You'll find the links to these on the top row of forum links (note that each website has different owners so, if you want the widest response or choice, then you need to make an enquiry at all the sites).

Home owners are not allowed to respond to enquiry requests via the forum - not only is this unfair to verified home owners who may not be using the forum but there is a possibility that you may receive an offer of a home that is not verified.

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